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McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death sentence of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in the Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to mitigate a death penalty determination without showing a "racially discriminatory ...
A death penalty case that brings up issues of bias inherent within Kentucky’s death penalty system. | Your Feb. 27 Daily Briefing.
Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim is not killed. Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v.
Mootness in a death penalty case The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Company: 407 U.S. 1 (1972) Enforceability of a forum selection clause: Fuentes v. Shevin: 407 U.S. 67 (1972) Opportunity to be heard Pennsylvania v. New York: 407 U.S. 223 (1972) State of escheat for unclaimed money orders: Flood v. Kuhn: 407 U.S. 258 (1972) Baseball and antitrust ...
The Court also found that the death penalty "comports with the basic concept of human dignity at the core of the [Eighth] Amendment". The death penalty serves two principal social purposes—retribution and deterrence. "In part, capital punishment is an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct".
Williams’ conviction is the first death penalty case to be tested under the new law. His life now rests in Hilton’s hands. As the execution date nears, Hilton will have to rule on whether ...
In the original case (1966), the court did not raise the issue as to whether the death penalty was unconstitutional. In the second hearing, which also took place in 1968, the court did raise the issue but decided that the death penalty was neither cruel nor unusual.
The Supreme Court weighs whether inmate Richard Glossip's murder conviction should be thrown out — an unusual death penalty case in which the attorney general of Oklahoma has sided with a defendant.